| From | Peter Hurley <> | Subject | [PATCH v5 33/44] tty: Clarify multiple-references comment in TIOCSETD ioctl | Date | Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:44:53 -0400 |
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Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> --- drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c index 84ba790..9725c94 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c @@ -567,13 +567,15 @@ int tty_set_ldisc(struct tty_struct *tty, int ldisc) tty_ldisc_restore(tty, old_ldisc); } - /* At this point we hold a reference to the new ldisc and a - a reference to the old ldisc. If we ended up flipping back - to the existing ldisc we have two references to it */ - if (tty->ldisc->ops->num != old_ldisc->ops->num && tty->ops->set_ldisc) tty->ops->set_ldisc(tty); + /* At this point we hold a reference to the new ldisc and a + reference to the old ldisc, or we hold two references to + the old ldisc (if it was restored as part of error cleanup + above). In either case, releasing a single reference from + the old ldisc is correct. */ + tty_ldisc_put(old_ldisc); /* -- 1.8.1.2
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